METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATION LINKS AND HANDLING SP SLOT CONNECTION COLLISIONS IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

A wireless communication network includes a plurality of mobile nodes each including a transceiver (14), a phased array antenna (16) connected to the transceiver, and a controller (18) connected to the transceiver. The controller schedules a respective semi-permanent time slot for each time frame to establish a communication link with each neighboring mobile node and leaves at least one available time slot in each time frame. The controller also schedules the at least one available time slot to also serve the communication link with a neighboring mobile node based upon link communications demand. The controller waits a time period to resend another request upon simultaneously sending a request to another mobile node and receiving a request from the other mobile node without receiving a corresponding reply.
Each communication time slot is divided into two mini slots, the first is used for a transmission between two given nodes, the second for the reverse transmission between them.